Alex Massie takes Janet Daley to task for comparing the EU with the Soviet Union (the evil of which Greg Hands writes about the today).
The 'EUSSR' thing is just one of the wholly inappropriate comparisons that often come up in debates.
Other classics are Bush equals Hitler, Israel equals Nazi Germany and Britain-under-Brown equals Zimbabwe-under-Mugabe. And last week, of course, we had David Wilshire comparing anger at MPs with the persecution of the Jews in WWII.
Every comparison devalues debate and, more importantly, cheapens the suffering of the people who did live under the USSR, Nazi Germany and Robert Mugabe.
